I’m kind of catching up on some late posts tonight. One of them is this video from Marketplace which shows the inside of the Foxconn iPad factory. It’s a very rare look at the factory that Apple would otherwise like to keep in complete secrecy.

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Workers at Foxconn continue to jump to their death. What are their gripes and their pressures? How are the factory’s management and modus operandi? The Pearl Report talks to a suicide survivor, among others, in the first of a 2-part series on China : the world’s factory.

You enrol in school to learn. But an increasing number of students on the mainland are being sent to “intern” instead, in factories as cheap labour, with the blessings of local governments. The Pearl Report investigates the blinkered policies, corruption and suffering of this phenomenon.